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Post by theravenking on Aug 13, 2017 18:52:55 GMT
Post the first line of the book you are currently reading.
“All day it has been windy – strange weather for late July – the wind swirling through the hedges like an invisible floodtide among seaweed; tugging, compelling them in its own direction, dragging them one way until the patches of elder and privet sagged outward from the tougher stretches of blackthorn on either side.” - from The Girl in a Swing by Richard Adams
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2017 21:49:27 GMT
"This is the story of a lover’s triangle, I suppose you’d say - Arnie Cunningham, Leigh Cabot, and, of course, Christine."
I'm sure I don't have to say which book it is...
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Post by darknessfish on Aug 14, 2017 8:35:34 GMT
"In the beginning there was a river."
Ben Okri lights up this thread with his dazzling poetic intro to The Famished Road.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2017 18:00:19 GMT
The suburb of Saffron Park lay on the sunset side of London, as red and ragged as a cloud of sunset - The Man Who Was Thursday (G.K Chesterton).
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2017 23:33:28 GMT
Mary, daughter of King Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon, was born at four o`clock on the morning of Monday 18 Febuary 1516 at Placentia, the royal palace at Greenwich, on the River Thames.
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 17, 2017 13:51:05 GMT
First line of the Introduction: "Anyone steeped in western literary culture must wonder why any woman of spirit would want to be a wife."
First line of Chapter One: "Shakespeare's wife was identified as long ago as 1709 when Nicholas Rowe informed the readers of his edition of the plays: 'His wife was the daughter of one Hathaway, said to have been a substantial yeoman in the neighbourhood of Stratford.'"
----Shakespeare's Wife by Germaine Greer (HarperCollins, 2007)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2017 2:26:59 GMT
"This is the story of a lover’s triangle, I suppose you’d say - Arnie Cunningham, Leigh Cabot, and, of course, Christine." I'm sure I don't have to say which book it is... I think one of King's better novels. Much better than the film, which was why I put off reading it. Not a bad film at all, it's a decent watch. But I can see them remaking it and including more of what happens in the novel. |
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 24, 2017 3:00:15 GMT
"Like most forms of corruption, it began with men in suits" - Real Tigers (Third book in the Slough House series) by Mick Herron
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2017 8:54:52 GMT
"This is the story of a lover’s triangle, I suppose you’d say - Arnie Cunningham, Leigh Cabot, and, of course, Christine." I'm sure I don't have to say which book it is... I think one of King's better novels. Much better than the film, which was why I put off reading it. Not a bad film at all, it's a decent watch. But I can see them remaking it and including more of what happens in the novel. I think the most significant difference is that in the movie, there's really no reason why Christine is the way it is. It's literally evil straight off the production line, whereas in the book it's not the car so much as it is the spirit of her previous owner possessing both Christine and Arnie. I'd quite like to see a movie that was closer to the book, though as you say the original movie is pretty good. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2017 22:53:38 GMT
I think the most significant difference is that in the movie, there's really no reason why Christine is the way it is. It's literally evil straight off the production line, whereas in the book it's not the car so much as it is the spirit of her previous owner possessing both Christine and Arnie. I'd quite like to see a movie that was closer to the book, though as you say the original movie is pretty good. I have read the book twice and seen the film many times over. I read the book after seeing the film. I don't think I would want to read the novel again and I did enjoy the film when I last viewed it again several weeks ago. While compared to the book, it could be considered flawed or not fleshed out enough, but it is still a decent and original supernatural thriller that is always interesting. They did the same with Cujo-83', eliminating the possession\supernatural aspect of the dog and just making him simply rabid. I guess this does make it appear more logical in the eyes of objective thinking viewers, but I hate to rain of their parade, possessions by entities do occur of both people, places and things. That's odd, I've never seen the movie Cujo or read the book. I've always avoided it because it sounded like it was just a book about a dog with rabies. I asked a friend if there wasn't anything more to it, no ghost or weird supernatural thing, and she assured me there was nothing like that, it was literally just a woman stuck in a car by a rabid dog. So what's the supernatural aspect, exactly? |
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Post by Terrapin Station on Aug 24, 2017 22:55:18 GMT
From a re-read: I'll give you the first paragraph instead.
“WE THE PEOPLE.” These are the words that begin the Declaration of Independence. Or maybe we are thinking of the Gettysburg Address. No matter. The point is, these words are written on an extremely historic yellowed document that we, as a nation, keep in a special vault in Washington, D.C., where, each working day, it is cherished by employees of the Document Cherishing Division of the Federal Bureau of Historic Yellowed Objects.
That's from Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States
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Post by bonerxmas on Aug 25, 2017 6:13:03 GMT
Ἤδη μὲν καὶ πρότερον πολλάκις ἐπιστήσας τὴν διάνοιαν ἐθαύμασα, ἴσως δὲ οὐδὲ παύσομαι θαυμάζων, τί γὰρ δήποτε, τῆς Ἑλλάδος ὑπὸ τὸν αὐτὸν ἀέρα κειμένης καὶ πάντων τῶν Ἑλλήνων ὁμοίως παιδευομένων, συμβέβηκεν ἡμῖν οὐ τὴν αὐτὴν τάξιν τῶν τρόπων ἔχειν.
- Theophrastus, 'Characters'
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2017 11:10:46 GMT
That's odd, I've never seen the movie Cujo or read the book. I've always avoided it because it sounded like it was just a book about a dog with rabies. I asked a friend if there wasn't anything more to it, no ghost or weird supernatural thing, and she assured me there was nothing like that, it was literally just a woman stuck in a car by a rabid dog. So what's the supernatural aspect, exactly? Before I answer your question, have read The Dead Zone? Yes. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2017 15:04:59 GMT
The abused psychotic killer Frank Dodd, that killed himself when he was found out in DZ, possesses Cujo when he is rabid. The novel starts out with a prologue about how a killer came to Castle Rock Maine, Frank Dodd. The novels are linked in this respect. Your friend must've overlooked that aspect, or didn't make the connection. I never made that connection, either. It's been a while and I do remember at least one supernatural scene involving a closet in the kid's bedroom, I think? But I never thought the rest was supernatural. Just a huge rabid dog. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2017 23:52:21 GMT
I never made that connection, either. It's been a while and I do remember at least one supernatural scene involving a closet in the kid's bedroom, I think? But I never thought the rest was supernatural. Just a huge rabid dog. I have only read the book once in the late 80's. I read it slowly and carefully. Not one of my favourite King books, but there are some brilliant passages as to be expected from King's earlier works. King subtly alludes to Cujo being possessed by Dodd. If I recall, one of the character's who is confronted with Cujo, sees Dodds in his eyes. This îs why King mentions the character's reign of terror at the start of the novel. I remember the supernatural parts in Cujo but I did not make that connection. Went right over my head! I'm sure I'll read it again as I did enjoy it. |
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Post by theravenking on Sept 15, 2017 18:15:54 GMT
"Europe is committing suicide. Or at least its leaders have decided to committ suicide. Whether the European people choose to go along with this is another matter."
From The Strange Death Of Europe by Douglas Murray
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Post by mikef6 on Sept 15, 2017 20:01:13 GMT
Prologue: This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people.
Chapter One: It was an overcast late November morning, the grass splintered by hoarfrost, and winter grinning through the gaps in the clouds like a bad clown peering through the curtains before the show begins.
The Unquiet by John Connolly
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Post by darknessfish on Sept 19, 2017 8:49:18 GMT
"If on a sunny day you climb the steep path leading up from the little wooden bridge still referred to around here as ‘the Bridge of Hesitation’, you will not have to walk far before the roof of my house becomes visible between the tops of two gingko trees."
Kazuo Ishiguro - An Artist of the Floating World
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Post by mikef6 on Oct 8, 2017 19:05:08 GMT
"You know how it is there early in the morning in Havana with the bums still asleep against the walls of the buildings; before even the ice wagons come by with ice for the bars? -- To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
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Post by darknessfish on Nov 28, 2017 9:32:12 GMT
"At the open window of the great library of Blandings Castle, drooping like a wet sock, as was his habit when he had nothing to prop his spine against, the Earl of Emsworth, that amiable and boneheaded peer, stood gazing out over his domain."
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